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They don't ride the bus because it's too slow, unreliable or unavailable. Yes - Uber showed up the inadequacy of public transit in the US just as much as they
by racer-v 9y ago
They don't ride the bus because it's too slow, unreliable or unavailable.
Yes - Uber showed up the inadequacy of public transit in the US just as much as they disrupted the taxi industry. Transit seems designed only for consumers who can't afford any other option. If public services want people to choose to ride the bus over taking a car, they need to substantially increase the quality of the riding experience.
- api 9y agoPart of the issue with buses is the maps. Trains usually have nice schematic style maps but there seems to be a law mandating that bus maps be illegible tangles of purple lines with little hard to read numbers and a table of what those numbers mean on a different page.
- jakecopp 9y agoIs that because buses stop more frequently, and so don't lend their routes to geographically simplified schematics as well as trains? What do you think would be the perfect bus route map design? I'm really interested in this!
- racer-v 9y agoPersonally I think the biggest problem with bus maps is that when you get on a bus, you can't find one. The inside is plastered with advertisements and "public service announcements" telling you to go to the opera and not drink soda. Instead if could look at the wall (or grab a pamphlet) and see where I need to get off for my transfer, that would already be a huge improvement.